The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-03-18

FRIDAY. MAR. Is. 1887.
SENATORS At A FUNERAL.
NOTEWORTHY SCENE IN THE CHAM
Der AT WASHINGTON.

memory of Logan the senators prob
ably presented the last noteworthy
scene in their chamber before the
opening of new Congress. BY
that time fifteen Of the senators Of
yesterday will be senators no more.
A look at the body on this interest
ing occasion will not, therefore, he
without some little profit.
Senators die every year and their
surviving associates eulogize their
characters, but these post-mortem
panegyrics rarely mean as much as
those delivered IN the four hours
devoted to the Logan tributes.
Every inch of the surrounding
galleries was occupied when the
Senate assembled at noon, save only
the blue upholstered benches in the
diplomatic apartment and the long
colored bench reserved for the
President household. The two front
benches in the gallery at the left of
the vice-president's chair, which are
separated from the press gallery by
wire screen, were held for the
mourners. A few minutes after
prayer these melancholy spectators
came from Logan's old committee
room, that of the committee on
military affairs, and took the seats
reserved for them. Mrs. Logan,
enveloped in black, sat between her
fair-haired grandchildren, the Tuck
er boys, and her modest, good
looking, dark skinned, black NOUS
tached son, John A. Logan, Jr.,
whose right arm encircled his
mothers waist and supported and
soothed her during the trying first
half hour of the exercises. On the
other side of Mr.. Logan his sister,
with hair and eyes of true Logan
blackness, sat with her tall, blonde
husband, Major Tucker, whose
father-in-law secured him pay
mastership in the army, and whose
mother-in-law got the secretary of
war to give him a three years de-
tail in Washington. Next them sat
Parson Newman, and around them q
score of kins-peoplc and invited
friends.
When the journal of Tuesdays
session had been read, and about
two-thirds of the senator's were in
their seats, tall, lean, sunken'
checked, smooth-lipped and glisten
ing-eyed Shelby M. Cullom moved
the adoption of resolutions in praise
of his late colleague.
HOW DO SENATOR'S LOOK
and act at funeral?
| We'll, first, about iorty-five o.
those present were dressed in black
three or four in dark blue broad
cloth, and only James Donald Cam
eron relieved these sombre hues witt
suit of some quite Scottish mix
ture. Not q smile was to be seen il
the chamber. There were no drap
cries, but Logan's old chair was
left empty, and its present holder
Senator Cullom, borrowed Senato
Mahone's seat. George +. Ed
munds sat beside the mover of TIN
resolutions, and with his chin rest
ing on the lapels of his, long, blu
coat, and his hands folded on hi
lap, he listened motionlessly to al
tie speakers. Justin S. Morrill, wa
seated OH the other side of MIR
Cullom, and kept his legs crossed
and his hands clasped. William
Pitt Frye occupied his seat beside
that of the departed senator, ant
sat with crossed legs and his heat
resting on both hands. Georg
Frisbie Hoar showed one hand in {
trousers pocket and clutched thu
bottom of his vest with the other
John James ingalls, folded his arm
over his Prince Albert coat and no,
lookd earnestly at the speaker, an
then turned his back and becam
thoughtful. His dreary agnosticisI
excluded him from the list of enlc
gists. When Cameron came in lat
he found William Malone perche
on the edge of his chair, but mo
toned him to not move. Mahon
insisted, however, in giving up tn
seat and took another. The little
disappearing vrginian, with hi
long, thin gray whiskers, wOndroHsl
piercing eyes, his black broadclot
frock coat falling back and revealin
the absence of avest and the prcsanc
of heap of fine white linen, owe
which a yard or more of gold chat
wound about, and with his stripe
trousers tucked at the top to hid
the deficiency of hips and met at tn
bottom by a pair of silk overgaiter'
moved from speaker to speaker, an
resting his head on his bony arr
looked steadily in the face of eacl
William Maxwell Evarts, spare br
by no means short, scroutched dow
into his chair and rubbed his thumb
together. John II. Morgan street.-the
an elastic from side to side of hi
desk and snapped it until he wa
tired, when, for a change, he woun
it about and unwound it from b
fingers. George Graham Vest, th
only rebel senator, nov serving as
senator of the Union, sat on hi
back as usual, and pinched his re
nose. Matt w. Ransom held hi
gray whiskered face in his hands
and Henry b. Payne, who would nc
probably have seat 10 sit in